Chile Vamos

Chile Vamos (Spanish for "Let’s go Chile”) is a centre-right to right-wing political coalition of three political parties in Chile. The coalition was created on 29 January 2015 by the general secretaries of the Independent Democrat Union (UDI), National Renewal (RN), Democratic Independent Regionalist Party (PRI) and Political Evolution (Evópoli).^[7]

Let's go Chile Chile Vamos
Leader	Sebastián Sichel
Founded	29 January 2015; 8 years ago (2015-01-29)
Preceded by	Alliance
Headquarters	Santiago de Chile
Ideology	Conservatism^[1] Economic liberalism
Political position	Centre-right^[2]^[3]^[4] to right-wing^[5]^[6]
International affiliation	International Democrat Union
Senate	24 / 50
Chamber of Deputies	53 / 155
Mayors	144 / 345
Website
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For the 2021 parliamentary election, the coalition was renamed Chile Podemos Más (stylized Chile Podemos +, Spanish for "Chile we can (do) more").^[8]

History

On August 2, 2014, during the National Council of National Renewal in Santiago, the party chairman Cristián Monckeberg called his group together with the UDI and then political movement Evópoli to refound the Alliance under the name Coalition for Freedom. Negotiations were also held with the Independent Regionalist Party so that it would join the coalition, which concluded in December 2014 with the creation of a new coalition agreed to contest the municipal elections of 2016, and the presidential, parliamentary and regional councilors elections of 2017.

The new coalition was made official on January 29, 2015, and the process of finding a name for the new referent began.

In August 2015, the four member parties agreed to submit two lists for the election of councilors in 2016: one consisting of RN and UDI, and the other composed of the PRI and Evópoli. The same month, the name "Levantemos" ("Let's get up") emerged as the name that generated greater consensus within the coalition as its mark. However, the name was challenged by the NGO Desafío Levantemos Chile, which objected to similarities with its own name and logo. The opposition bloc responded that the name of the coalition was not yet formalized and that "Levantemos" was only one of the options to consider. The name "Chile Vamos" was decided on 4 October 2015.^[9]

Following the election of Sebastián Sichel as the coalition's candidate during the 2021 presidential primaries, Chile Vamos has been considering changing the name of the coalition, with most suggestions revolving around Sichel's campaign slogan "Se puede" (It is possible).^[10] On August 20, 2021, the name of the coalition was officially changed to "Chile Podemos Más" ("Chile can do more").^[11]

Frictions

The impact of the 2019-20 Chilean protests and the management of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a series of differences and frictions between the different parties of Chile Vamos.

In late 2019, UDI froze for a few months their membership with the coalition because of major disagreements with some policies of their fellow parties.^[12]

Vamos por Chile

For the 2021 Constitutional Convention election, Chile Vamos and the Republican Party agreed to participate in a joint list called Vamos por Chile (Spanish for "Let's go for Chile") as a way to ensure the combined list could secure the third of seats needed in the Constitutional Convention to veto proposals to be included in the new Constitution of Chile.

The single list, however, had the worst electoral result for any right-wing alliance since the reestablishment of democracy in Chile. Vamos por Chile got 20% of the votes and only 37 of the 155 seats in the Convention.^[13][14][15]

Composition

Party	Spanish	Leader
Independent Democratic Union	Unión Demócrata Independiente	Hernán Larraín
National Renewal	Renovacion Nacional	Cristián Monckeberg
Political Evolution	Evolución Política	Felipe Kast
Democratic Independent Regionalist Party	Partido Regionalista Independiente Demócrata	Alejandra Bravo

Political council

The coalition has a political council with 47 members: 16 independents, 10 from National Renewal, 10 from the Independent Democratic Union, 6 from Political Evolution and 5 from the Independent Regionalist Party.^[16][17]

Independent Democratic Union: Guillermo Ramírez María José Hoffmann Juan Antonio Coloma Patricio Melero Jaime Bellolio Edmundo Eluchans Jorge Castro Francisco de la Maza Andrés Chadwick Political Evolution: Jorge Saint-Jean Andrés Molina Lorena Recabarren Felipe Morandé Pedro Pablo Errázuriz Luciano Cruz-Coke

National Renewal: Mario Desbordes Andrés Allamand Alberto Espina Manuel José Ossandón Carlos Larraín Nicolás Monckeberg Francisco Chahuán Felipe Guevara José Miguel Arellano Sergio Romero Pizarro Democratic Independent Regionalist Party: Eduardo Salas Hugo Ortiz de Filippi Yuri Olivares Mario González Rubio Alejandro Fuentes

Independents: Sebastián Piñera Soledad Arellano Rosanna Costa Karin Ebensperger Ximena Rivas Vicente Alti Hugo Herrera Julio Isamit Sebastián Keitel Felipe Larraín Nicolás León Carlos Llancaqueo Pablo Ortúzar Ricardo Sande José Villagrán Rosita Díaz

See also

•  Conservatism portal

• List of political parties in Chile
• New Majority (Chile)
• 2017 Chilean general election

References

1. "Con Sebastián Piñera como claro favorito, la campaña electoral de Chile entra en una semana decisiva". Clarín. November 12, 2017.
2. "What the victory of centre-right Sebastián Piñera in Chile's presidential election means". The Economist. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2020. Sebastián Piñera of the centre-right Chile Vamos (Let's Go Chile) coalition trounced his centre-left rival, Alejandro Guillier, a senator and former television anchorman, by 55% to 45%.
3. Echenique, Martín (June 30, 2017). "Elecciones primarias en Chile para definir los candidatos a la presidencia". Clarín.
4. Sebastián Rodríguez; et al. (2018). Gabriele Meiselwitz (ed.). Forecasting the Chilean Electoral Year: Using Twitter to Predict the Presidential Elections of 2017. p. 301. ISBN 9783319914855. Two political coalitions participated in the primary elections: "Chile Vamos" (Right-wing coalition) and "Frente Amplio" (Left-wing coalition). {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
5. "Profile: Chile's President Sebastian Piñera". BBC. 18 December 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2020. The conservative billionaire, who represents the right-wing Chile Vamos coalition, was previously president between 2010 and 2014.
6. Noticias, C. H. V. "Elección de constituyentes: Mira acá cuáles son la posiciones ideológicas de las 70 listas". CHV Noticias.
7. "UDI, RN, PRI y Evópoli firman acuerdo para la creación de una nueva coalición política". La Tercera. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
8. Garrido, Mónica (2021-08-20). ""Chile Podemos +": El nombre de pacto parlamentario con el que Chile Vamos busca reinventarse". La Tercera. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
9. ""Chile Vamos" es el nombre de consenso en la Coalición de centro-derecha". 4 October 2015.
10. "Chile Vamos analiza cambiar el nombre de su pacto parlamentario". Cooperativa.cl.
11. ""Chile podemos más" el nuevo pacto parlamentario encabezado por Sebastián Sichel". pauta.
12. Blume, Florencia (December 20, 2019). "La UDI y Chile Vamos". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved January 9, 2020.
13. "Chile's govt in shock loss as voters pick independents to draft constitution". Reuters. 2021-05-17. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
14. Montes, Rocío (2021-05-16). "Los chilenos castigan a los partidos políticos en sus elecciones constituyentes". EL PAÍS (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-05-17.
15. "Chile chooses independents to draft new constitution". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
16. Unión Demócrata Independiente (December 2015). . Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
17. "UDI incorpora a Kast, Bellolio, y a ex timoneles a consejo político de Chile Vamos". La Tercera. 2015-12-18. Retrieved 2015-12-19.

External links

• Renovación Nacional (National Renewal)
• Partido Regionalista Independiente Demócrata (Democratic Independent Regionalist Party)
• Evolución Política (Political Evolution)